KMG to close former OM Group site in California

10:34 AM MDT | October 18, 2013 | Vincent Valk

KMG Chemicals says it will close a former OM Group (OMG) site, which was acquired along with OMG's ultra-pure chemicals (UPC) business earlier this year, site in Fremont, CA by 31 March 2014. The site manufactures and packages high-purity process chemicals for semiconductors, and its production will be switched to KMG’s plants at Hollister, CA and Pueblo, CO. The production transfer is expected to start by the end of this year. “After careful review and analysis, we determined that our global electronic chemicals manufacturing operations would...